2019-02-27
Visiting Professor of Finance Roosevelt University
TA/Co-instructor U Chicago Master of Science in analytics
Organizer of The Chicago R User Group
Committee member R/Finance 2019
Author of the wooldridge R package, the official R package for “Introductory Econometrics” by Jeffrey M. Wooldridge.
Author of the neverhpfilter R package, implementing James Hamilton’s alternative to the Hodrick-Prescott filter.
Google summer of code mentor 2019, R and Finance applications?
Data Scientists: A Designer laptop that costs $3,000+ is a waste of your most valuable resources, time & money.
Data Scientists: You’re already building your own Software for Data Analysis (SoDa) for several good reason, consider building your hardware for many of these same reasons.
Management: Experienced, Full-Stack Data Pros often command salaries in the six figures. Don’t issue them the 8GB laptop, their productivity is simply too valuable to impose this bottleneck.
Some data is private/valuable and you may not be allowed to risk it in the cloud.
AMD - Threadripper 1950X 3.4 GHz 16-Core Processor Black Friday SALE $450
ASRock - X399 Taichi ATX TR4 Motherboard: Microcenter bargain table SALE $150
Enermax - Liqtech TR4 II 280 80.71 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler Retail $140ish
Corsair - Dominator Platinum 32 GB (2 x 2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory Retail $320
These are Samsung B-Die sticks, higher quality for Threadrippers.
Added another 32GB kit a friend had laying aroud, even if lower quality Hynix